New Western Info Fronts Against Syria: Refugees, Russia, And The Balkans

Russia has taken the lead in supporting Syria this summer, actively initiating efforts to bring a diplomatic resolution to the country’s crisis and assemble an inclusive anti-ISIL coalition. The rapid pace at which it’s working is due in large part to the looming specter of a joint American-Turkish invasion force which hangs ominously over the Mideast. Disturbed at the success that Russia has had so far in reaching out to the US’ traditional Mideast allies, as well as that staying power of the Syrian Arab Army in holding firm against the latest onslaughts against it, the US commanded its media proxies to initiate an intense information war against Syria, hoping to both break the back of its resistance and complicate Russian efforts to assist it. This hybrid information war manipulates the three disparate but interconnected factors of the refugee crisis, Russian efforts to assist Syria, and the Balkan overflight zones in order to advance American foreign policy and concoct a package of media myths to deepen the destabilization of Syria.

Politicizing A Humanitarian Crisis

The refugee crisis was created in 2011 by the West’s regime change campaigns in Libya and Syria, but it wasn’t until this year that it really caught the attention of the Western mainstream media. Millions of Syrians had already been displaced by the tumult, with the lion’s share of them choosing to remain within the country, but a sizeable minority (also numbering in the millions, and tainted with an anti-government composition) opted to leave their homeland for abroad. Once there, many of these expatriates endeavored to eventually travel to the EU in order to receive its generous social benefits and have an opportunity to work for euros.

The trigger for the latest wave, according to Ghassan and Intibah Kadi, was Turkey’s decision to allow the Syrian refugees it was hosting to finally leave their camps and head out to Europe. This massive migration and the no-questions-asked policy of granting Syrian refugees asylum led many non-Syrians to fake their nationality and make the trip as well, further worsening the crisis and adding to its overwhelming numbers. The US has received certain strategic benefits by encouraging this process and guiding it along a premeditated geopolitical path, but no explicit politicization of the situation occurred until the viral photo of Aylan Kurdi began surfacing on the internet at the end of August.

The media vultures have since picked child’s corpse clean in order to feed their political narratives, which revolve largely around ludicrously blaming President Assad for the tragedy and using the public outcry over it to ‘justify’ the UK and France ’s “anti-ISIL” bombing operations in Syria (the latter of which will likely be announced soon). Furthermore, the anti-government affiliation of many of the refugees flooding into Europe makes for excellent “rebel” recruitment, especially since the US just announced that it will be “revamping” its regime change program in Syria. On top of all of this, the very fact that certain EU states are so accommodating of the refugees creates a strong pull factor that seeks to dismantle Syria demographically by provoking even more emigration among its most youthful and productive segment of the population (which, it must be reminded, could also help protect the country amidst this terrifying war being waged against it).

Inventing An Intervention

Seeing Through The Illusion:

The next major element of the information war against Syria was obscure Israeli information outlet Ynet’s article about a supposed Russian ground intervention being prepared against ISIL. The Twitter posting of Russian military aircraft by the terroristAl Nusra Front added to the frenzy, which is absolutely ridiculous for two reasons: (1) Israeli – supported terrorists are never a reliable source of information; and (2) Russia has been openly providing military equipment to Syria for years and has never made any pretense to hide such a fact. Despite the obvious falseness of Ynet and Al Nusra’s ‘reporting’, the Western mainstream media went into a frenzy , and the sensationalism quickly skyrocketed to the Secretary of State’s attention when Kerry went out of his way to call Lavrov about it.

Addressing The Audiences:

This episode of information warfare wasn’t engineered just to waste time and create a week-long media distraction, since there are more important things that it was aiming for. The fake-intervention-turned-‘real’ by the Western mainstream media was simultaneously directed at the Saudi, Russian, and Syrian audiences. Speaking on the first, the US is apprehensive about the developing relations between Russia and Saudi Arabia, specifically in the context of diplomatically bringing a close to the War on Syria, and it sought to throw a wrench in these efforts by crafting the false story that Russia unilaterally upped the ante and abandoned the secret negotiation framework. Thus, the fake report was also intended to distort the idea behind Russia’s anti-ISIL coalition, which isn’t to invite a Russian frontline component into the war, but to gather all existing military forces under a coordinated anti-terrorist umbrella .

Russians:

Pertaining to the Russian audience, the US wanted to stoke divisions within the country’s political society that have developed since Moscow first pledged its full support to Damascus in its anti-terrorist struggle. There are some in Russia who disagree with this approach and think that it’s an unwarranted overextension of the national interest, and the purpose behind this ruse was to strengthen their opposition precisely at the point when Russia is doubling down on its commitment to Syria. While an emboldened “hyper-patriotic” opposition (of the same vein, and likely related to, some of those who agitate for a conventional intervention in Eastern Ukraine) would likely have no effect whatsoever on Russia’s relations with Syria, the point is to continue stirring up this new type of anti-government sentiment and testing its receptiveness among the Russian population. Another objective is also to monitor how the fake news spread among the Russian media and how quickly and in what manner the government chose to respond to it. As relates to Russia, the general goal was to attempt a test run of various factors that could provide the US with data that would aid it in perfecting more effective strategies against the country in the future, but as for the immediate impact, it was of course visibly negligible.

Syrians:

Finally, the main target of this hoax was Syria, and the ruse was designed specifically to crash the population’s hopes and make them resentful against the government. There are some in the country who feel that Russia could be doing more to assist the Syrian Arab Army, and to them, the news of a direct Russian intervention was welcome and in accordance with their wishes and expectations. Therefore, when it turned out to be a false rumor, it’s conceivable that they would have felt let down and perhaps even upset at Russia for not actually having done this, which could have the manipulated effect of damaging the integrity of the Russian-Syrian strategic partnership among the hearts and minds of the population. In a similar vein, artificially constructed anti-government sentiment could also be spread among the seditious elements of society that would want to spin such an intervention as a ‘Russian occupation’ or the arrival of ‘Russian death squads’.

Along the same token, according to the words of Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi, “All of this [was] to insinuate the Syrian state is weak and that the Syrian military has weakened to the point of resorting to the aid of friends in a direct manner.” It goes without saying that individuals who believe such a train of thought are also more likely to flee and perpetuate the demographic drain being inflicted on the country, which is itself a severe form of asymmetrical warfare. All in all, since it’s probable that the US and its allies predicted that the rumor would be dispelled in the eyes of its target audiences before too long, they were likely aiming for a panicked, knee-jerk reaction among the refugee-inclined segments of the population and those receptive to the anti-government rhetoric that would paint the phantom Russian intervention as a ‘death squad invasion’. Just like the case with Russia, this rumor alternatively achieved the goal of testing the reaction of the Syrian public and authorities in reacting to the false news, albeit with the intent of putting the finishing touches on a strategy that will likely be rolled out a lot sooner against Damascus than the one against Moscow.

Bringing In The Balkans

Greece:

The last part of the West’s latest information warfare package related to Syria dealt with bringing the Balkans into this specific frame of New Cold War tension between the US and Russia. It emerged that the US had asked Greece to deny Russia the right to use its airspace for humanitarian aid shipments to Syria’s internal refugees, but somewhat unexpectedly, the caretaker Greek government refused to obey Washington. This is illustrative of two important facts: (1) the US felt confident enough of its ability to exploit Greece’s political confusion to push it towards an anti-Russian pivot; and (2) the Greek authorities, despite their temporary nature, understand the strategic national interest in retaining positive relations with Russia in order to build the Balkan Stream pipeline, up to the point that they would dangerously refuse the US’ orders. The geopolitical theme that defines this dictate-refusal interaction is the intense struggle between Balkan Stream and Eastring , with the US always ready to disrupt the former in order to advance the latter, while Greece is valiantly proving its ability to withstand Washington’s pressure and reaffirm its pipeline pledge to Russia.

Bulgaria:

Bulgaria is the polar opposite of Greece on this matter, since it decided (likely on its own and without being asked ) to ban Russian humanitarian aircraft from flying over its territory en route to Syria. It likely did so in order to spite Russia for calling its American-advised bluff and replacing South Stream with Turkish Stream, since Bulgaria is still fuming about how this act utterly destroyed any prospects it ever had of crawling out of its economic backwater status and becoming a semi-normal European economy. While it did backtrack a bit and said it would allow the flights in question to continue on the condition that their contents are inspected beforehand, Moscow dismissed Sofia’s humiliating ‘offer’ and insisted that it had other air routes available , with Iran stepping up to present a viable alternative.

The Black Sea state thus revealed a lot about the nature of its contemporary political elite through its obtrusive actions, confirming its leaders’ designation as America’s premier Slavic stooges in the Balkans. Furthermore, elaborating on the timing and the volunteering nature of Bulgaria’s decision, it’s likely that it behaved this way in order to curry additional favor with its American patron after Washington’s commands were courageously rejected by Athens. Bulgaria wanted to ‘thank’ the US for sending heavy equipment and Marines to the country professedly to ‘protect against Russian aggression’, but in reality, such a deployment serves only to facilitate Bulgarian aggression against neighboring Macedonia, which many in the country refuse to acknowledge as a separate ethnos, language, and state. Per the US’ strategic benefit, it allows NATO to have one of its ‘ rapid reaction ’ headquarters strategically abutting the Turkish, Greek, and Macedonian segments of Balkan Stream.

Geopolitical Significance:

Flying over the Balkans en route to Syria fulfilled a strategic purpose for Russia that more than compensated for the extra length required when compared to its Iranian-Iraqi replacement. It would of course be easiest if Russia could fly its aircraft above Turkish airspace and directly to Syria, but this route is obviously inoperable judging by Russia’s previous employment of the Balkans detour, and it’s probably because Ankara rejects any sort of Russian-originated aid going to the country. Be that as it may, the Balkans are many times more preferable than their eastern replacement primarily because they keep Russian planes out of the US-led “anti-ISIL” coalition’s area of operations.

This may not have been so important one year ago when it wasn’t in effect, but with American and other planes nowadays sporadically operating above the country when they so choose and not coordinating their “anti-terrorist” efforts whatsoever with Damascus, the threat remains that some sort of in-air ‘mix-up’ could occur that takes down one of the Russian planes and creates an international crisis. Such a scenario would be amplified if the Russian pilots were captured by ISIL and beheaded, as this would be sure to generate considerable backlash among the Russian public. Considering the risks thus involved, Russia’s insistence to continue providing Syria with humanitarian aid amid these arguably more difficult circumstances testifies to the solidarity of the Russian-Syrian strategic partnership and Moscow’s dedication to aiding Damascus in its anti-terrorist struggle.

Concluding Thoughts

Concurrent with Russia’s reinvigorated efforts to diplomatically resolve the War on Syria, the US has taken to launching a three-pronged hybrid information war against Syria in order to worsen its domestic situation. The refugee crisis has been politicized and transformed into a novel asymmetrical weapon of regime change against the country, creating a quandary which is impossible for Syria to resolve on its own and which places it in an ever-constant strategic vulnerability. The US and Israel’s hoax about a Russian ground intervention against ISIL was a second wave of soft destabilization designed to obstruct the assembling of Russia’s anti-ISIL coalition and also undermine faith in the Syrian Arab Army. The most recent ploy related to Syria saw the US trying to unsuccessfully pressure Greece to deny overflight rights to Russian humanitarian aircraft transiting to Syria, but out of nowhere, Bulgaria’s voluntary agreement to this scheme (motivated out of a dual desire to please its patron and thank it for the heavy equipment, Marines, and ‘rapid response’ base its received) has created an unnecessary inconvenience.

Washington’s heightened information warfare against Syria at this particular time can be read as a strong statement of how successful it feels Russia has lately been in attempting to resolve the country’s problems, as this level of soft destabilization is unprecedented since the crisis first erupted. The US never before tried using the refugee flows out of the country as a means to encourage its British and French allies to militarily involve themselves in the country, nor has it ever invented a Russian military intervention there (although it notably did so in Eastern Ukraine). Moreover, the US is clearly concerned about the humanitarian aid that Russia is giving to Syria (believing it to be a cover for covert military aid above what has been publicly declared), as it’s taken the dramatic step of asking one of the overflight states, Greece, to halt its cooperation with Moscow in order to inhibit it. All of these measures are demonstrable of the US’ fear that Russia’s physical and diplomatic assistance to Syria has finally moved it to the tipping point of reversing the terrorists’ dynamic and enacting a pivotal change in bringing the four-and-a-half-year war to a pro-government conclusion.

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Russi has really messed up everywhere by trying to be too smart with betraying her mallies like IrN,Libya,Iraq, Syria by not arming them in time just to please angloamerican enemies who are the mortal endmies of russis,

Russia didn’t help their friends in an timely manner because just a few years ago has got a good level in economic and military state again after the crash of the URSS in 1990. But now, with his president, a good strategist and intelligent man, is avoiding a total collapse of the world in US’s hands. A new global order has started and is unavoidable.

@Socho
You should remember that Russia was slowly rising from crisis in mid 90s and their leaders have no option or resources for direct military intervention in Middle East like in case of USSR. Libya & Iraq lost becuase their armies were weak and their leaders were incompetent in military matter. Saddam was also not trusted by Russia due to being earlier ally of West.
Iran, in my opinion, was never betrayed.

Andrew, thanks for another brilliant piece of analytics. You have a knack for seeing the geopolitical ingredients and conveying the importance of all the relevant moves, tactics and strategies.

This particular piece is very timely. I agree with your conclusion. The one element I didn’t see was that maybe Greece could hold out against US pressure. Bulgaria is just a lost cause. They walked from their economic future, five billion dollars in gas revenues they desperately need and now will never get.

What I get from the Syria moves by Russia is that Putin feels very secure close to home (Donbass) and around the perimeter of Central Asia, so that he can put full weight of diplomacy into the Middle East morass. Not only is he working out something with Saudi Arabia that may or may not lead to something altogether new in the ME alignment, but Russia and Egypt are together on many long term military and economic projects. Egypt is a big get and not much has been written about it. They have indicated they want to get close with SCO and Russia will sponsor them.

Putin’s speech at the UN in the coming weeks might be one of the hallmark speeches of our lifetime.

Given the American media position now that Assad is worse than ISIS, it appears the hawks have taken control of the Syrian events. Obama may be a sidelined lame duck; Kerry is the messenger from the wargaming bureaucrats of the National Security Council and Pentagon. There is no room for diplomacy, the war must be won against the criminals. The “coalition” axis that supplies the takfiris must be destroyed. If special forces of the criminal states are with them, they must be destroyed as well. Where is Iran? Where is China? Iran has many thousands of men to send. Let them be the boots on the ground, and let Russia be the armorer. That is my view. The criminals cannot be allowed to make this movie.

Rothschild’s EU is already exploding, Russia already lit the fuse under it with the ban on EU food products , French farmers are already bankrupt and the German Auto industry has already lost over 18 billion dollars in sales since the sanctions on Russia.
America is already bankrupt for many many years now only surviving on the wall street ponzi scheme ,without any industry or anything to sell except arms, Rothschild can’t save EU and US at the same time so it seems he is sacrificing EU for US, it’s so apparent that Europeans havent have the slightest clue what is happening to them , they are asked to destroy their own economy for america and like zombies they just comply.

I’m more and more impressed with the work of Andrew K. I’ve had a hard time making heads or tails of the conflicting information and propaganda regarding the so called Russian invasion and refugee crisis. So far, this makes more sense to me than any other single piece I’ve seen.

When a paper is filled with dots, a person who connects them with one or more lines, becomes invaluable. Thank you, again, Andrew. A pleasure to read.

Q; … in bringing the four-and-a-half-year war to a pro-government conclusion.

R; As various US commanders have readily admitted; you can’t win a war against guerrilla/freedom/’fill in the blanks’ fighters.

As long as there’s still one individual left to blow things up, that struggle can and will continue.

To top it all of; as long as the human organ eating jihadists are allowed to freely enter Syria, actively encouraged to do so and handsomely paid to kill and behead [by neighboring countries], Syria, as a country, will face a grim future.

Given the fact that Russia has only 1 aircraft carrier, it would be advisable [for Russia] to upgrade the Tartus base and build an airfield right next to it, including all possible means to defend both, to be able to act as a counterweight for FUKUS’ ‘free for all’ bombing runs into Syrian airspace.

Korybko: Psy-ops it is, but don’t take your eye off the real prize: Donbass. See below a thoroughly dishonest presentation of Russian Aid. The correspondent has the nerve to complain that instead of sending out of date equipment to the Syrians, those nefarious Russians are providing them with the latest models—fresh off the assembly lines most likely !!! Why, the nerve!

Anon, Israel is being isolated in global opinion because the sheer depravity of its endless brutalisation of the imprisoned Palestinians is plain, despite overwhelming Western MSM bias towards Israel. Israel’s attempt to kill a few million Iranians is secondary, but fully to be expected. Of course, Israel doesn’t care, because, where it counts, in politics, the MSM and business, Jewish money power has bought the loyalty of Western ‘elites’, one of many reasons why those ‘elites’ are so thoroughly despised by the serfs.

Russia and China are developing a new drone that uses a powerful projectile of a multiple launch rocket system for deployment to battlefields as far as 90 kilometers away.

The reconnaissance drone, the first of its kind ever, is being developed by Russian and Chinese engineers at the Splav design bureau and production center in the western Russian city of Tula, some 400 kilometers from the border with Ukraine, RT reported Wednesday.

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is capable of being delivered within a 300mm MRLS rocket.

PressTV have outdated news. Russia have already 300mm missile, which have range of 90km, with spy drone. Probably China is now intrested about building this missile & drone with cooperation with Russia.

US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton says she would not hesitate to launch a war against Iran should the Islamic Republic violate the nuclear agreement.

“I will not hesitate to take military action if Iran attempts to obtain a nuclear weapon,” Clinton told a Washington think-tank on Wednesday.

“The Iranians and the world need to understand that we will act decisively if we need to,” she said. “As president, I will take whatever actions are necessary to protect the United States and its allies.”

What the ‘female’ psychopath Clinton means is she will do what her Jewish owners tell her, and if an excuse is needed to kill a few million Iranians, then some lie such as ‘Saddam’s WMD’, ‘Gaddafi’s container-loads of Viagra’ or ‘Assad’s chemical weapons attacks’, will simply be invented, and the Western MSM sewer and its inhabitants will loyally peddle that lie. An eventual attack on Iran is, barring a miracle, certain.

Precisely, Rootman. When dealing with the ‘States of Exception’, the Chosen People of the USA and Israel, you have no choice but to fight back. Hezbollah showed that you can defeat them, but, unfortunately, the two monster terror states are so deep in blood-lust and the religious act of genocide that they will always be back. Gaddafi surrendered and co-operated, and got a knife up the arse, to Hillary Clinton’s psychotic delight, and his country utterly destroyed, literally ‘bombed back to the Stone Age’, for his error. Syria co-operated on numerous occasions and has received destruction and mass murder in return. The world will have no peace and none of the global co-operation required to survive the ecological catastrophe, and therefore no future, unless and until the truly evil and destructive West is overthrown. If the psychopathic elites of the West can be replaced by non-insane, non-evil, citizens, perhaps we will survive. It’s a very, very, long shot. But not fighting back with every might and ability just guarantees genocide, because these monsters are not just pitiless, but thoroughly enjoy their power to kill and destroy.
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Excellent summary and analysis of the situation. Thank you Andrew Korybko and Saker

I don’t worry too much about real actions that may need to be taken in the forthcoming times. Russia and Syria are deeply grounded in reality and of course so are Iran and Hezbollah. All four have clear policies, and I think none will hesitate to act, with precision and total commitment, should the need arise.

The US remains deadly dangerous But its military force is a huge paper tiger, untested for decades now against reality, and quite likely to collapse against any real adversary, such as the Syrian theater can present if things escalate. Even its mercenaries seem to take on their paymaster’s weak backbone when things get tough.

The only two weapons left to the US that I can see are the very substantial global financial controls it still commands – the dollar is still the refuge for capital flight, and this venue will take some time to relocate to the east.

The second weapon is theater. US foreign policy depends on maintaining a certain ethical narrative with its propagandized people, who are actually not stupid, but who comprise perhaps the most lied-to nation in the world.

In the world at large, the US seems to be master when it comes to theater. It’s obviously deeply invested in the tools and props of theater. The refugee ploy is actually pretty bold and imaginative – but in the end it’s only good to keep the local voters of EU and US compliant. The effectiveness of theater in the real world is dying rapidly as the world wakes up to the signs of staging. False flags are not what they used to be, and the media outside of the western narrative is rapidly growing, already eroding the western monopoly on news.

All I see from the US is theater. All I see from Russia, Syria, Iran and Hezbollah is action.

“It emerged that the US had asked Greece to deny Russia the right to use its airspace for humanitarian aid shipments to Syria’s internal refugees”

And yet Russia allowed (non-lethal) supplies for the U.S. military occupation in Afghanistan to cross and fly across its territory – and, as far as I know, that may still be in effect. It did this despite the cost to itself of huge increases of heroin trafficked into Russia since the U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.

They finally stopped doing that when the sanctions started. And the American’s never followed through on the war on drugs as the dealers would go down a rabbit hole and intel wasn’t shared by USA on whereabouts. Russia as brilliant as so many of you-sometimes I think you are thick headed instead of thick skinned.

Hi Andrew, another great article…I loved the end…and I’m hopeful that its the truth. Its what I’ve heard elsewhere…that Syria and Hezbollah are getting the upper hand on these idiots that join ISIL – Daesh –

When I listen to General Nessrallah it is like poetry even in translation I am moved. I can’t imagine the impact when heard and understood in original tongue. He announced months ago that it was over for the Great Arrogance and their ISIS puppets, he appears to be correct.

Yes I agree very good article I like the point about the attempt to draw the most able body Syrian away from (possibly) being able to fight, though I think this dove tails with the fact that along with the weapons the west really doesn’t want the humanitarian supplies sent either to Syria just as they didn’t want supplies sent to Eastern ukraine as both these battles major weapons are just as much economic destruction and strangulation as the lack of security with bullets and tanks that are part of real pressure that people would feel the need to flee said countries.
I would also highlight that this is also no doubt trying to change public opinion and amplify discord in the Eastern ukraine against Russia and possibly inside Russia itself against Putin and friends.
Unfortunately in this case they need the Russian involvement to be false in Syria and possibly neighboring regions while true of course every where else.
Of course the NATO agglomeration has not had such a great track record in everything they have caused and getting the effect they desire; especially within Russia.
I think it is with this in mind that Russia is engaging Western Propaganda with a great deal of humor as Russia moves on the world stage continue to be consistent and far from the nauseating hypocritical reaction that goes for international politics in the western world.
At any rate it has set off the bee’s in the bonets of the mass media trying to extrapolate “Russian motives” one “Russian specialist” has gone so far as stipulate this is an attempt at blackmail for returns in the ukraine crises, boggling my mind as that would implicate NATO’s real motives in the battle against ISIS as truly a task of taking apart Syria as well as acknowledge that the Ukraine is in fact not a sovereign nation outside of the support of NATO and the IMF and is one loan default from joining the ranks of Syria as a “failed state” that the u.s can do as it pleases with!
Indeed with Russia also chiming in with willingness to accept Syrian Refugees, they are also avoiding the Russian/fascist paradigm the west so desperately wants the world to see Russia with Putin as head as the ideal.
They should be more worried about the fact that Russian international policy does not divorce these refugees from their country of origin not to mention that Russia and the Eurasian union has far more prospects for employing these people currently then the west does!

I think it would also be good to look at how these US moves have backfired on the US.
The US created refugee crisis is now backfiring on them in Europe as more countries want Assad and Russia involved in solving the crisis. Also, I think the Bulgarian “bribe” was also timed when their energy minister was talking about South Stream again too – well the Bulgarians have well and truly put that to bed. Nord Stream 2 seems to have full backing now as the EU realises its energy needs will need to be met by Russia (avoiding Ukraine and Poland in the process). So whilst the US is testing its propoganda it can also have negative effects on their plans too.

I think we can all agree that the US is worried that the Russian peace plan for Syria is going to work and they are putting spokes in to stop it by claiming Russian intervention is the reason.

KIEV, September 10. /TASS/. Ukraine has closed air space for Russia’s aircraft bound for Syria, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said at the meeting with his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico on Thursday.
“I ordered Ukraeroruh [Ukrainian State Air Traffic Services Enterprise] this morning to increase control with Eurocontrol on the flights of any Russian planes to Syria. Now the air space over Ukraine is closed in general and the air space over the neutral waters is under special control,” he said.

jackals all clubbing together now——-“close (USA NATO )supervision “over neutral waters?Sounds like a provocation is due…….watch out for Georgia, Turkey next maybe…….isolate and control…….maybe USA is planning something big in Syria, to catch up or finally achieve something in their thousands of airstrikes in Syria hat have failed to halt ISIS-deliberately or opportunatistically?????

Who says Russia was flying over Ukraine anyway? (highly unlikely). NATO has no jurisdiction over international waters (or neutral as he calls it). This guy is an utter buffoon – a chechen terrorist who doesn’t know the history of WWII.

Mr Korybko, I would like to thank you for sharing your insights to us! I´m only around pg 50 in your book and for better understanding, have to re-read every chapter, while you already published some more articles!

I try to share your information whenever possible, and hope you will continue you very valuable work! Again, much thanks!

Thank you Andrew Korybko, for this concise report for all of us here in the vineyard who desperately want this war to be over and for the Syrian people to return to their native homeland.

Dear President Assad,

During the 70th anniversary of World War II, the Chinese government announced it is scaling back its armed forces by 300,000 men in the near future. I suggest you engage the Chinese to offer these well trained men an opportunity with financial incentives to fight for Syria, now. A massive paratrooper airdrop in key locations coordinated with the Syrian army and Russian Federation logistics support would shock ISIS/ISIL and its western coalition of vassal States.

You need men to fight these terrorists Mr. President and the Chinese have them. These are critical times for your nation and require bold measures to overcome this adversity. I hope you consider this soon for you need a miracle to save Syria from the abyss of what is surely an unknown future.

Excellent analysis. Seeing Greece stand firm (for the moment) is encouraging and I believe the Russian deal is the basis of that. The “refugee play” is a bit more abstract although the sudden waves of immigrants and ensuing press coverage lends this credence. keep up the great work.

I am late in the game but would like to express my appreciation for this excellent article. I also completed the readings of your latest book about the workings of the hybrid war waged by the US. The book is extremely informative and helps understand the current events by using a blueprint or a model as a gauge.

I am reading some other articles from you from other sources and have little to add. One thing bugs me though, where do you find the time to write so many articles of such a high quality in such rapid succession?

I am Bulgarian and although I don’t support the government on its actions against Russia, and yes, we are Washington puppets, it is ridiculous to state that we are going to invade Macedonia and need American help for that.Whoever wrote that it is a lie and he must know it. Bulgaria was the first state to recognize officially Macedonia as a independent country although if one read the history will see why majority of the Bulgarians don’t consider Macedonians as such neither their language. i have been reading this site since its beginning and really enjoyed it. Unfortunately those days there is less original content from The Saker and more of Russian propaganda. i know Russian people and they are deeply religious, good at hearth, and very welcoming( one must drink with them to see how good they are) but Russian politics are not different from the west. All it matters to them is power and money. Same as their west buddies. I think that’s sums it quiet nice.

If I was Russian, and thousands of my soldiers had died in the past to liberate a fellow Orthodox Slavic people from Ottoman Turkish rule.Supported that country to gain Independence against the wishes of almost all the Western powers, who wanted them to still be under Turkish rule.And then in WWII liberated that country once again, this time from fascist rule.I would be disgusted and outraged at the betrayal of that nation,Bulgaria. And from what I see in posts from Russians on that matter,they are.And won’t lift a finger to help them again.So its “nice” that some Bulgarians say they support Russia,their saviors.But that niceness does nothing to stop the evildoers in charge of Bulgaria from stabbing their Slav brothers in the back,”once again”.And now also twisting the knife.What should be the fate of such ingrates.Maybe if Turkey ever decides they want that country back,especially with a large Turkish minority there (Cyprus anyone),Russia will just turn her back and say nothing.

Boomerang like the sanctions? Could the costs of hosting these refugees in Europe economically force them to drop sanctions on Russia and cooperate in building a peaceful Eurasia? It certainly would be a strong argument in favour of such cooperation. And they most certainly will have the audacity to ask or demand that Russia do something to help out since they are already blaming Putin and Assad for the refugee’s NATO has created. Let’s hope the Irony God’s play their cards at this most important juncture. Putin is on the right track building a serious coalition and is at minimum exposing the hypocrisy and duplicity in the West struggle for dominance over global resource allocation. Most European’s realize that without Russian security no one is secure. The politician’s in the EU are given an offer they cannot refuse, an offshore account with a few millions in it or a bullet for you and your family. This is Western “arm-twisting” And they call Putin a thug. Hardly.

I must commend you on an excellent analysis of the current geopolitical quagmire in Syria. I’m still pro-russian on this issue(in a cleanest t-shirt in the dirty hamper type of way), and I’m especially against the Imperial Axis of Assad-Ousters.

I disagree with one statement from this article, pertaining to Russia-Saudi relations.

“developing relations between Russia and Saudi Arabi, specifically in the context of diplomatically bringing a close to the War on Syria”

I read your orientalreview article as well.
While I agree on the shared necessity–between Russia and SA–of forming an anti-Daesh coalition, they can’t seem to agree on whether Assad should be anywhere near the provisional goverment that would arise from the ashes of this conflict.

Lavrov talked with Al-Jubeir about this issues recently. The Russian FM explained his anti-ISIL coalition idea, and Saudia acknowledged the wisdom in that idea, but they still reiterated Assad must go.

“Lavrov said anti-Islamic State forces united on the ground should have wide international backing. But Jubeir specifically ruled out any coalition with Assad and tension between the ministers was often visible during the conference.” (You can read the article and watch the video link the end of my post)

Washington and its goon-nations share a similar belief of Assad’s Ousting. This complicates a diplomatic solution to the Crisis because no side wants to get over the Assad issue, not with the war drums beating In the background. If they really wanted to end the war quickly, Russia would have to leave Assad in the dust, cuz only Russia and Iran really want Assad in power for their own interests, everyone else wants him gone.

Should Russia coordinated more diplomatic talks, and possibly consider allowing Assad to resign in order to bargain a solution to the Civil war?
Who will take his place, IS, terrorist groups, Israel, gulf Arabs, Washington Puppets? What a mess.

P.S.
“The two ministers also discussed possible Saudi purchases of Russian arms in the context of a planned visit by the Saudi king to Russia.”

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